Sphagnum teres |
Sphagnum sitchense |
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rigid peat-moss, sphagnum |
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Habit | Plants fairly slender to moderate-sized, pale green to yellowish, or reddish brown in sun-grown forms; forms loose to dense carpets. | Plants moderate-sized; capitulum flat-topped and dense; pale yellow and pink, lacking sheen. |
Stem(s) | leaves generally larger than branch leaves, 1.3– 1.8 × 0.8–1 mm; elliptic to lingulate-spatulate, widest above middle, hyaline cells nonseptate. |
pink, superficial cortical cells aporose.; stem leaves narrowly triangular to lingulate- triangular, 1.2–1.6 × 0.6–0.8 mm, length: width ratio ca. 2:1, apex apiculate, border strong and moderately broadened basally; hyaline cells narrowly rhomboid and 1 to occasionally 2 septate, often fibrillose apically. |
Branches | long-cylindrical, branch leaves terete to sometimes distinctly squarrose in shade forms. |
not 5-ranked. |
Branch leaves | 1–1.4 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to an involute tip, hyaline cells somewhat bulging on concave surface and nearly plane on convex surface, with 4–8 large, elliptic, unringed pores per cell on convex surface and 1–4 irregularly rounded pores per cell on concave surface, internal commissural walls smooth to rather strongly papillose, chlorophyllous cells ovate-triangular with the widest part at or close to the convex surface. |
1.3–1.5 × 0.5–0.55 mm, ovate-lanceolate, concave, straight, apex involute; hyaline cells on convex surface with numerous round to elliptic pores along the commissures, grading from large elliptical pores at the base to moderate-sized round pores at the apex, concave surface with a few large round pores scattered throughout. |
Sexual condition | dioicous. |
unknown. |
Spores | 21–26 µm; proximal and distal surfaces smooth, papillae indistinct; proximal laesura 0.5–0.6 spore radius. |
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Branch | fascicles typically with 3 spreading (sometimes 2) and 2 pendent branches.; branch stems with single layer of cortical cells. |
fascicles with 2 spreading and 1 pendent branch. |
Sphagnum teres |
Sphagnum sitchense |
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Phenology | Sporophytes uncommon, capsules mature late spring to early summer. | |
Habitat | Strongly minerotrophic, in open to medium rich fens, less frequent in coniferous mires, characteristic species of rich, weakly acidic to slightly basic mires | Known only from type locality where it was forming low dense hummocks in alpine tundra |
Elevation | low to high elevations | moderate elevations |
Distribution |
AK; CA; CO; CT; IA; ID; IL; IN; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; ND; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NF; NS; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Greenland; Eurasia
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Discussion | Shade forms of Sphagnum teres are often squarrose but these are usually considerably smaller than S. squarrosum. For other distinctions between these species, see discussion under the latter. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 27, p. 59. | FNA vol. 27, p. 98. |
Parent taxa | Sphagnaceae > Sphagnum > sect. Squarrosa | Sphagnaceae > Sphagnum > sect. Acutifolia |
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Synonyms | S. squarrosum var. teres, S. teres var. squarrosulum | |
Name authority | Ångström: in C. J. Hartman, Handb. Skand Fl. ed. 8, 417. (1861) | R. E. Andrus: Sida 22: 969, figs. 27–34. (2006) |
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